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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 13: occupations in 1863; exchange of prisoners. (search)
He approved of my suggestions as to the course to be taken, and said he would confer with the secretary upon that subject upon receipt of my communication. Before we parted he told me not to make any more exchanges of prisoners until the terms and questions were determined at Washington. On the 14th day of April I received notice by telegraph that my letter of the 9th with the accompanying papers had been referred to General Grant for his orders, See Appendix No. 4. and on the 20th of April I received a letter of instructions from General Grant. See Appendix No. 5. These instructions in the then state of negotiations rendered any further exchange impossible and retaliation useless. Being anxious that this unfortunate state of the question should not affect the sick and wounded, I telegraphed as follows:-- Fortress Monroe, April 20, 1864. Lieutenant-General Grant's instructions shall be implicitly obeyed. I assume that you do not mean to stop the special excha
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 14: in command of the Army of the James. (search)
morning, and to push on with the greatest energy from that time for the accomplishment of the object designated in the plan of campaign. General Gillmore did not arrive from Charleston until the 3d of May, so that I was deprived of the full opportunity of organizing the Tenth Corps, and did not have so much consultation with him upon the plans of the movement as was desirable. His reasons for the delay were substantially set forth in a letter which I addressed to General Grant on the 20th of April. See Appendix No. 24. The iron-clads had not come up, and both these causes of delay were sources of great anxiety as well to the lieutenant-general as to the general commanding the department. See Appendix No. 25. On the 4th of May the embarkation began at Yorktown, See Appendix No. 26. of the Tenth and Eighteenth Army Corps, under the command of Generals W. F. Smith and Q. A. Gillmore, amounting to about twenty-five thousand men. The colored troops (part of the Eighteenth